Little-noticed drilling technique uses propane gel, not water, to release natural gas. Higher cost, lack of data and industry habit stand in the way. By Anthony Brino, InsideClimate News and Brian ...

In the previous article, I discussed some of the issues involving water and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). In a nutshell, although fracking has proven to be a highly effective means of boosting oil ...

Clinicians urged to be aware of fracking-related health problems Chemical contamination, community disruption and negative psychological effects among health problems associated with hydraulic ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. This article originally appeared on ...

It didn't seem possible, but fracking's terrible public relations problems just got a whole lot worse. The pollution from fracking sites could be worse than we thought, and state efforts to protect ...

In Western New York, where I reside, there are thousands of existing gas wells in the Marcellus and Utica shale fields. For many years, water well drillers and Department of Environmental Conservation ...

There should be no fracking in Maryland. In some western states that allow “fracking,” people cannot drink their well water because of seepage. In other states, they are having earthquakes that have ...

From the fly-fishing perspective, the nightmare impact of fracking on trout streams has always been the specter of toxic fracking fluid spilled (or dumped) into pristine waterways, sending wild trout ...